Mark Hertling

I can't wait to go to combat and all that.

All I'd say is when you've

When you've been in a leadership position, you've lost a lot of soldiers in combat.

It's not that exciting anymore.

And in fact, it brings back that scene from Patton where Patton and Bradley are talking to each other.

And Bradley turns to Patton and says, George, the difference between me and you is you do this because you love it.

I do it because it's my profession.

And the professionals won't be all that excited about going to war.

In fact, they train for it.

They prepare for it.

but they're more apt to say, let's build some alliances and deter conflict so we don't have to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.

I've got a piece coming out probably today or tomorrow on exactly that.

First of all, JSOC is not necessarily an invasion planning headquarters.

They fall under SOCOM, the Special Operations Command.

JSOC is, as we've talked about before, they are the folks that are the Delta operations.

SEAL teams, Rangers, pararescues from the Air Force, the MARSOC from the Marine Corps, they're all the special operators who train extensively on several missions, counterterrorism, abduction missions like we saw with Maduro, the kinds of things that take a hard strike and get out quickly.

And they're very well trained.

When you're talking about an invasion, that normally goes to a combatant commander like South Com or North Com or now what they're calling Hemisphere Command or a word, something like that, where they're attempting to combine both the North American and South American command structure.

So it is in their sphere of influence, just like European Command takes care of the continents.

Central Command is overseeing the Middle East and others.